The Ultimate Game: Get Inside Guardiola’s Head
This is your chance to prove not only your knowledge about the game of football, but also your psychological insight by cracking the code of Barcelona coach Josep ‘Pep’ Guardiola’s master brain:
Predict Barcelona’s Starting Lineup
This is not (as in: N-O-T) a place for discussion on team tactics or personal player preferences. You just give the system and the eleven names you think will start the game against BATE Borisov. Line-ups posted in the comments sections will not be considered as valid entries for the game.
Join us after the jump to take part in the game.
You can give your starting line-up until 1:45 hours before the start of the game (20:45 hours Barcelona time – therefore, predictions stop at 19:00 Barcelona time).
Those who predict the starting 11 correctly will earn a point for that particular game.
The one with the most points at the end of the season will be declared the winner.
Note: The rule of guessing your team before Guardiola names his squad and getting an extra point has been cut.
To get started, select a formation from the drop-down menu, and hit the “Change Formation” button.
Winners after 19 games:






























Lol, i don't even want to try. I'm scared!
pique as DM,, my guess for the surprise of the game
24 different formations in 24 games!!! No thanks hahaha!!!
btw vote for Team 2011 here: http://www.uefa.com/community/teamoftheyear/
Barca players FTW
Valdes, Alves, Thiago Silva, Pique, Abidal, Shaqiri, Xavi, Iniesta, Hazard, Messi, Van Persie, Pep!
I went with:
Valdes
Alves – Pique – Vidic – Abidal
Goetze – Xavi – Iniesta – Bale
Messi – Van Persie
Voted for van persie just because he was undeservedly left out of the final 23 for ballon. I'm quite sure Falcao deserves that other striker spot though. what a season he had with porto and a great start with atletico. for LM it seemed it was put there for bale to win considering the other candidates don't even deserve to be there other than hazard, luka modric and silva should have both been in that category. they should of done 4-3-3 instead of 4-4-2. Can someone tell what arjen robben did last season to be a nomineee? Obviously i went with pep as manager but what was really satisfying was that mourinho wasn't even there.
I was going to thumb you down, but then I saw the selection there was too choose from. Terrible! Anyways, my lineup will probably get more thumb-downs than yours :p
Valdes
Alves – Hummels – Thiago Silva – Abidal
Goetze – Xavi – Iniesta – Hazard
Messi – Ronaldo
That's my completely unbiased selection. Pique was off form badly last season. Masch is the best CB out there for my money (besides maybe Thiago Silva), but last season he only made that transition there in around March. For that reason, neither Pique nor Masch deserve the CB spot for last season's best team. In right and left midfield, the options were awful. I guess Goetze deserves is, as he was actually very impressive last season. And although Hazard had struggled a few years back, he stepped it back up last and played well. Alves, Abidal, Xavi, and Iniesta are very easy choices. Messi too, of course. For the other forward spot, I think Ronaldo deserves it. I mean, it doesn't matter how many of them were tap-ins, 53 goals is insanely impressive. Cavani and Falcao also had fair shouts, but Ronaldo just edges it for me.
off topic, can you post your profile pic next to your name its beautiful
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,, i was talking to anonymous_69,,, but your pic is sick to bro!
haha I love the picture too: http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/305/mesl.png
Valdes: deserves it after 3.5 fantastic years
Alves: simply the best DR
Pique & Masch: Thiago Silva prob deserves a spot but Masch his transformation to CB was sublime, Kompany was great too.
Abidal: who else?
Gotze: fantastic year for the youngster, won the Golden Boy as well
Xavi: who else?
Iniesta: Ozil and Silva were great too but Andrés is a level above them (would have voted for Silva as AML if I could)
Hazard: Lille won the league thanks to him, Bale was good too but Hazard made more impact
Messi: though choice between him and a certain Portugese fella…
Aguero: Falcao his season was sublime but isn't shining that luch at Atletico, Van Persie is scoring goal after goal now but Aguero did it good at Atletico and had no difficulties adapting to EPL.
Pep: Por que no Mourinho???
all barca + hazard, götze y cavani.
nice! I for the Team 2011 I went with
Valdes
Alves
Mascherano
Pique
Abidal
Xavi
Gotze
Bale
Iniesta
Messi
Aguero
Guardiola
Valdes
Alves-David Luiz-Pique-Bale
Xavi-Busquets-Iniesta
Messi-Sanchez-Neymar
are you sleeping ? do you know where we are talking about ????
I’ll rather predict d starting line up 4our match against Madrid!
I'll just wait to see the lineup, never got this thing right
What do you think of that???
Pinto;
Montoya, Piqué, Fontas, Maxwell;
Thiago,Dos Santos,S.Roberto;
Cuenca, RAFINHA , Pedro
I guessed exactly the same, exept that I had Pedro right and Cuenca left.
Also considered Batra instead of Pique, think Pique might be a bit injuired and with Batras upcomming promotion, he could get minutes.
Wheres the amoeba formation?
I really hope we'll register a huge margin of victory on Saturday, although very unlikely, because it would totally demoralised Real for the rest of their season while lifting ours up significantly. Pep, please suprise us cules with your magic!
Yeah! 3-0, 4-1 or MANITA!!!
i select same rom1 has said.
Pinto
Montoya,fontas,pique,maxwell
S.roberto,JDS,thiago
Cuenca,rafinha,pedro
Its great that see alcantara brothers play together.i wait for it.
Exactly my lineup
I feel like this weeks Ultimate Game is a moot point….He's resting over half of the first team. But, props to whoever gets it right! haha
i love bartra, i want to see him in line up too.but with pique,fontas in line up,probably he come 2nd half for pique.
Subs:
Bartra,Delofeu,muniesa/kiko
But its pity that all our players (s.gomes,riverola,kiko/muniesa ) cant play in this match!
Let's join this guys Keite obsession for fun
My line up for Mad:
—————-Keite—————-
Keite—-Keite—-Keite—-Keite
——-Keite–Keite–Keite——-
——-Keite–Keite–Keite——-
Manager: Keite
Keite's mom: Keite
Keite'c chef: Keite
Referee: Keite
Linesman: Keite
Grass: Keite
Ball: Keite
Chuck Norris: Keite
My desklamp: Keite
Africa: Keite
World: Keite
Justin Bieber: Cristiano
EPIC POST IS EPIC!!! XD
great man hahaha
lool
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES YES YES!!!!!!!
but you forgot maxwell
i would switch keite to lw and move up keite from dm to false 9 role and the lineup would be perfect!!!
Pinto
Montoya – Pique – Fontas – Maxwell
Sergi Roberto – Dos Santos – Thiago
Pedro – Rafinha – Cuenca
I put Tello instead of Rafinha
no tello in the squad !
Get Inside Guardiola’s Head
Can i don't
I went with
Pinto
Montoya Fontas Bartra Maxwell
Thiago Keita Jonathan
Pedro Villa Delofeu
Would love to see Muniesa, Rafinha and Roberto come in after the first half.
Villa is not gona play!
I have a suggestion for the scoring of this game. Perhaps one point should be awarded for each player predicted correctly? This would allow more differentiation between the leaders. Currently we have many people tied with only one correct guess. I think this would be more fair and exciting!
I went
Pinto
Montoya, Pique,Fontas,Maxwell
Thiago, Dos.Santos, Rafinha
Cuenca,Pedro, Deulofeu
Pep has played pedro in the false 9 position before, i think he might do it again, it would be good for pedro to get some run in his legs, same with pique.
So hard to pick a team tho… for all we know Messi could either be rested or play full 90mins! everytime we think one, it turns out to be the other
I hope rafinha and thiago can play some time together. I see pep picking a different midfield than me, i bet kieta will play. damn it!! too many options!!
is grimaldo added to the squad to face base?
i mean bate?
Pinto
Montoya Bartra Gomez Maxwell
JDS-Fontas-Thiago
Kiko-Rafa-Pedro (if he's not fully fit, then Deulofeu)
pinto
montoya-pique-fontas-maxwell
JDS
thiago-roberto
cuenca-pedro-tello
clasico 11
valdes
alves gerard puyol(masch?!) abidal
busi
andres xavi
messi villa
cesc
Allas made a movie for Classico about Xavi, Iniesta and Messi with beautiful analysis! Must see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AiyUfxId90&fe…
Montoya and bartra will be promoted next season…
Looking forward to tomorrows game.
Pinto
Dos Santos-Pique-Fontas-Maxwell
Thiago-Sergi Roberto-Rafinha
Cuenca-Kiko-Pedro
—–Pinto—-
Montoya—Pique—-Fontas—Maxwell–
Thiago—Dos Santos—-Rafinha—
Cuenca —Pedro—-Deulofeu
Pinto;

Montoya, Bartra, Fontas, Maxwell/Kiko;
Thiago,Dos Santos,S.Roberto;
Deulofeu, Rafinha , Cuenca
Pinto
Pique bartra fontas maxwell
Tiago rafihna dossantos
Pedro duelouf cuenca
Pinto
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montoya, pique, fontas, maxwell
.
Thiago, s. roberto, dos santos
.
Pedro, rafinha, cuenca